I'm here in Portland visiting my sister Gwen, her husband Jeremy, and their new baby Amaya. Amaya will be one month old tomorrow! She's a sweetie (when she isn't hungry or tired or needing to be changed - which seems like all the time!).

Your Homesteader

This is the blog formerly known as “Northwest Meets Midwest,” where I shared about the absurdities and adventures of living in the Midwest (having moved here from the Northwest). But really, this blog has been more and more a story of how we’ve fallen into urban farming and homesteading. So read on and enjoy our adventures in canning, preserving, mushroom-growing, local/organic fanaticism, chicken raising, designing and constructing, sewing, and attempting a little self-sufficiency in our corner of Minneapolis.